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Atlaau. lumMl. hi -so Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur ftrry. G.O.P. Nominee Wlllkie. who has been accused of talking too much, mde four speeches in Chicago Fri., thug talking four times too much to lult New Dealers. ... The weather the part week, has been keeping the citizens guessing. They don't know whe ther to turn off the electric fan, or turn on the furnace, or keep both going. Lance and Leon Offcnbacher of the Applegate, have two new fancy bulla, that will never beat them to the fence. Friday the 13th passed with no more bad luck than usual. People who have been on spina through the rural regions recently report they never taw the sides of the barns look pret tier. The C. Wig Ashpole boy, Chuck, started to school Mon. in long pants, and is getting so he can lean on himself more every day. The wind and the rain during the week, cluttered up lawns with the first yellow leaves of autumn. The postoffice Interior U stilt in a wild state of disorder, and several of the Older Girls threat en to raid it with their trusty brooms. J. Wesley Bates has returned from the coast, where he saw a cornstalk 18 feet high, and had to shoot down a roasting ear with a .30-.30. Joe Fliegel, Jr., who has been laid up with his leg, is coming along fine, and will soon be hack at Old Roosevelt. Quite a few of the Smart Set have left for Eugene and Cor vailis, to drink at the fountain of knowledge. a The Elks tomcat, who went to the hospital with a broken Jaw, is Improving daily but still un able to tell how it happened. The consensus of opinion is the feline was hit with something. ... Bill Bowerman. the hs. foot ball coach, is as gloomy as a graveyard over the prospects, and sees no chance of a rainbow round the goal potts. Dewey Hill, the Prospect hired man and bridite addict, led the wrong ace Thurs. and was so mad he ate up all the hostess' cookies. a a a A mayor, five aldermen, a re corder, and a treasurer will have to be elected in November, and all of same are expected to run again. a a a Valley pioneers will meet at J'Ville the 26th to tell how they fought Indians, dug Bear creek, and bought venison hams on Front st. for 50c per. S. (Farm-Fresh) Morris, the T-Rk. tiller towned Fri. and paid his subscription for a yr. a a a The first new gas alio in a long time now impends on Grape st at 6th. a a a Peoria Bill Gates Is still In the Mid-West, and Is due home In a fortnight. a a a Joe Early of the Holland Mo tel, went to school in Butte with the new postmaster-gen eral. Latteries were a common , method of raising money (or churches in tht colonial period. Appeals to Class Prejudice THE Oregonian in its leading editorial yesterday, nninfpH nut what it rep-ards as a Duzzlintr doI ideal r'-... - " phenomenon. That iS Union labor s Critical attitude tOWard many D--.--...-.H ;;oto,V Ke St., w,f,,ool acta Ul Uie xvuubcvcii. ouuiiiuououun, uut iu iciuooi w criticize the man who determines them, tne rresi dent himself. Union leaders, for example,, bitterly assail Assis tant Attorney-General Thurman Arnold, for his action against certain building trades unions, as al leged violators of the anti-trust laws. They fight the administration policy of beating down union labor in various departments of WPA work, and declare eternal war against such "unfair practices." It might even be added that John L. Lewis, goes out of his way between elections to condemn the President, flay his broken promises to C.I.O. and then, When election day comes around, they ALL can't get to the polls fast enough to vote for four more years of an administration they condemn! HOW come? Everyone knows no one in the Roosevelt admin istration does anything that is not ordered, or en dorsed, by the President. Then why does union labor continually absolve the President of all blame and even responsibility, when they must know he, and he alone, is responsible. It just doesn't make sense. So the Oregonian con cludes: The unions understand this. None better. So they attack WPA, as they attack Thurman Arnold. And they go right on polling for Mr. Roosevelt, as though he had nothing to do with it. It's some kind of a trance. But it isn't. There is no trance about it. It's a perfectly natural result of the FD.R. political technique, from which America's FIRST aspirant for a presidential third term, has never deviated. PROM the outset of his first administration Mr. Roosevelt, has driven home the claim, time after time, that he is the sole champion of the humble worker, the common and the forgotten man. Against him he professes are arrayed all the sin ister forces of intrenched wealth and special priv ilege, he alone is the "Horatio at the bridge" who can repel and humble these "economic royalists" who would place the iron heel of oppression on the neck of organized labor, and so forth and so on. C VERYONE, by this 'time," must know the "line." But not everyone realizes the insidious dangers of it, particularly in a great and richly endowed democracy like this. (And the present writer might confess, at this point, that it took a long time for him to sense the destructive effects of this constant appeal from on high to American class consciousness and class self-interest!) DUT there's the answer. It is as plain as a pike staff. Because of this con stant class appeal, organized labor has come to be lieve it, to believe that it has, in Franklin Roosevelt, a "special friend at court", a friend a partisan, who can be depended upon to take sides in its favor, in any possible controversy. Why then SHOULDN'T it support such a partisan pro-labor government? Can any individual, or group of individuals, be expected to vote against their own self-interest? AND as the labor vote can always overwhelm the employer vote such a political technique, as F.D. ' ' R. so well knows, is SMART. In" fact as long as it WORKS, he or any other President in power who adopts, and skillfully em ploys it, can stay in the White House as long as he wants, there will never be, theoretically at least, enough votes to get him out. E said "IF" it works. For the technique isn't new. ' It started with the first demagogues in the first republic and has been used ever since. Yet in that time it has often failed. And there are reasons to this year. Not because orcanized labor will not. as a whole, cast a vote that is a CLASS vote, and in No vember that will be largely a pro-Roosevelt vote. But because the rank and file of this country, who are neither pro nor anti-labor; neither in favor of this particular class or some other, but places the better ment and welfare of this country above ANY class. are going to rise on their hind legs, and see that the government of this country ISN'T for four more years, government for anv CLASS! COR they realize if many good Americans who 1 should, DON'T, that the moment the United States becomes FIXED as a ONE CLASS government, (his democracy, the American way of life, is as dead as old King Tut and nothing in creation can ever revive it. Anil we might add this, tfor we happen to know pensive demonstration of rumen me i it's true), all these "independents" are not going j0'" n- . , ... , ' , ,, "I Peculiarly enougl at a lima when i to belong to the employer, white-collar group by any murr and cuurchiu are mining the j means. There will be thousands of them, workers, !"" "" " "l'!U'ur.r' u 'him. I i .... .a. . tsls on peace possibilities is Detn i unionized ana non-unionized, who will vote apamt RIlMl an lin.mnri.in nnnrcn Knu lif m11 .nr ... a.. . . nut I it till VVU1 iar enough ahead to see that it is to their enlightened self-interest, to do so. In short they will follow the first Roosevelt, instead )f th second; they will follow old T. R.. who ex- ' pressed an eternal truth "If this Im't to lc a good country for all classes loon won't be a good country for ANY;'' MEDFORD MAIL " believe it is going to fail i-V a l'. Y A kilt. V "III I W when he said: TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1940. Personal Health Service Br WUlUm Signed letters pertalnlog t atnaul health ana btgleae. M la disease dlagvosls ar treatmeat, sill ha answered hjr Dr. Brad; If a stsmped eelf. addrraeed entelope la enclosed, tetters jOI ' number .f letter, " jAddrrM Ur. nullain Bradj. J65 El camlna. Bererla Hills, Calif, Scurvy Is Common A lima Webster defines scurvy as "a disease characterized by a ten' dency to hemorrhage, especially into the skin and mucous memb r a n e s, and by a spon gy co ndition of the gums, foul breath, loosen i n g of the teeth, ane mia and de bility." Outs poken scurvy ia rare in this coun try today, but mild manifestations of the dis ease are quite common and in most instances the nature of the trouble is not recognized as scurvy. In infant or adult developing scurvy the first symptoms are listlessness, lack of energy (men tal and physical, failure of ap petite, and irritability). Later come loss of weight (or in the infant failure to gain weight), weakness and pallor. Still later soreness or tenderness about knees and ankles, with some swelling above the ankles a child may cry when the limbs are moved or handled, an adult may decide he or she has a touch of "rheumatism." With the bone sorness there is usually swelling, soreness and tendency to bleeding of the gums. Before definite signs of scurvy occur, the following symptoms may be looked for if any one Bets too little vitamin C, accord ing to Plimmer. noted English authority; Sallow, muddy com plexion, loss of energy, fleeting pains in joints and limbs, espec ially in the legs, usually mis taken for rheumatism. Plimmer asserts that so-called rheuma tism in infants and young chil dren has often been proved to be due to insufficient vitamin C and is really scurvy. "Lime juicer" has been a term for ships or sailors of the British navy since a surgeon (Llnd) in the British navy Droved that lemon or lime Juice prevented scurvy, about the middle of the eighteenth. Orange Juice, or nowadays to mato Juice, is given to young Infants as part of their daily diet, to prevent scurvy. Any fresh fruit or fresh fruit Juice, and many fresh vegetables or their Juices, taken raw or un heated, contain vitamin C Cooking, prolonged heating, pas teurizing, sterilizing destroys vitamin C. Vitamin C in fruit Juice deteriorates on standing as in the refrigerator over night: it is better to consume fresh THE CAPITAL PARADE Br JOSEPH ALSOP and ROBERT KINTNER (Continued frura Paga One ) as production would get under way, a change in design would make for interminable delays. Knudscn's new rule prohibits changes in design that would delay production. No one can blame the military experts for wanting the best planes avail able, but few people would dis agree with Knudsen's theory, that it is better to have planes eighty-five per cent as efficient as the latest designs than to have no planes at all. a MEANWHILE, along with the aver age cltlren, the cable-readera and the military expert are on tender hooks, with fingers crossed, over the outcome of the battle of Britain. The experts are chary of predictions, but moat of them still give the British an even chance against the German all out attack. But an Intelligent guess will not be possible for a week or ten dsva. when the poaslbllltlea of a successful Oerman Invasion can be better determined. The continued optimism of the riprrta (If diving the British a JO-40 chance Is optimism). Is based on the fact that the ratio of air loasea seem still to favor the British by a fall margin. The Oermsna have Inflicted great damage on England, probably more extensive than can be estimated ( from newspeper accounts. But as yet ; heard here sim the ar bombsru- menl of BncUnti started Accordm . weeks ao. before the all-out attacks. Oermany eunded out the Brltlah through the Vatlvan on estremely one-sided peace terma. The otler waa rrpnrtrd to be that the Brltlah would be saved from a real attavk by air and by Invasion. If they were willing to concede to the Ocrmans a pra.tl- i call coin;:!-:, control of t;ie conti nent, and much of the spoils of th ' Brady. M. O. ibaiiM ha brief saw wrtttea In Ink recened on!, a few ran ha anere4 o'ormini la inKrortlona. at Aliho a Rare Complaint ; fruit juice immediately after it is squeezed from the fruit. Cab bage, especially the outer green leaves, green leaves of celery, lettuce, tops of green onions, raw carrot, raw potato, raw tur nip, are all good sources of vita min C for the prevention and LUI C Ul all IliailUCSUlliUll Ul i scurvy R.u, milk frim pasture contains considerable vitamin C. Commercial canned tomato or tomato Juice, or citrus juice, retains a large part of its vitamin C. The home canning process is more destructive to vitamin C than the vacuum pro cess. Ql'EftTIONS AND. ANSWERS , f.mit'1 MMk Is Fine Food In fttuwtrlng an Inquiry in your column you Mid, "Qotti milk. If you like It, ut quit u Healthful aa Xhm Highest ntd cow's milk and In the raw stata rather safer than cow's milk.- That does not answer the question of special benefits de rived from drinking goat's milk . . . daughter has gained 30 pounds In (Its months drinking a quart of goat's milk daily, milk delivered from 's farm every day at 40 cents a quart. (Mrs. O. T.) Anawer I purposely endeavor to avotd exaggerating the value of goat's milk. The opinion you quote is my honest opinion. Any family that can : keep a goat and have the milk for , use In the home la fortunate and ; many thousands of families In vil lages or towns could and should do so. Attention School Medlral Inspector Janitor in our school has sinus trouble. Does a great deal of cough ing and spitting. What is the risk to school children who come more or less In contact with him day by day? (W. J.) Answer Perhaps the janitor has bronchiectasis, which often develops as a complication or consequence of long-standing sinusitis. Whether he la a menace to the persons closely associated with him Is a question for the school medical Inspector to determine. In any case no spitting should be tolerated In or around the school premises. Dumb John la Right Maybe you 11 call me a dumb John, but I suffer a good deal from corns and rant seem to find anything. (L. H. M l Answer Pslnt each corn (or callus. or wart) every ntght for a week or 10 nights with a solution of 30 grains of salicylic acid In one-half ounce of flexible collodion. Keep this off from neck of vial and cork or stopper and keep it off from normal skin surrounding corn. Of course you must atop wearing shoes that cause pressure or friction, or the corn will Inevitably recur. Go barefoot as much as possible. (Protected by John F. Dills Oo.) Ed. Note: Persons wishing to communicate alth Dr. Brady should send letter direct to Dr. nilllam Brady. M. O, 2fi3 El Cam I do, Beverly Hills, Calif. French. Belgian and Dutch empire. Neediest to aay Churchill did not re spond to tha feeler. a a a AFtW Informed officials forecast other peace overtures If the German Invasion la unsuccessful and tha London-Berlin bombardments continue with great Intensity over a long period. But the great majority of the experts envision no peaca as long aa Churchill la prime minister. It can be tsken almost for granted that he would not make any deal with Oermany. Por peaca now would be on German terms, which could only be the equivalent of a practi cally complete surrender. New York, Sept. 14. JV Mayor La Guard ia asserted to day that "Republicans begged me on their knees to support Willkie." before his speech Thursday night endorsing Pres ident Roosevelt. "And Tryor knows that and so does Congressman Martin," he added, referring to Rep. Joseph W, Martin, a Jr., Repub lican national chairman, and Samuel F. Pryor, Jr., Repub lican eastern campaign man "ger. The mayor's remarks were! prompted bv Pryor's criticism I of the speech, relayed to him las he boarded a olane for Buf- falo where he engagement. had a speaking Policemen of Wilmington. Del., learn to shoot under fire in gun battles with a mechanic al "bandit" that fires blat k car tridges at the officers. TRY OUR HEEDS WHEN OTHERS FAIL Rut dnn't lt until u hate fatlrwl tilth nthr. in't fpertm'nt with ourtelf. Hlnf the nldt ftrm of nur line In thl mlnn, our rrhablllt tt writ etanlhe4 by the eountle number of people we haie helped. RECOMMENDED FOR AILMENTS AND MALADIES OF SHORT OR LONG STANDING The CHINA HERB CO. hahse! I'LDG. ::s C. MA!:, st BjaaaMbaaaBBBBeaatkaeBaaaAiaall By Piiul Dunham CERTAIN members of con gress from Pacific coast states are watching with interest de velopments in the strike by AFL longshoremen at Puget Sound . . . . . , , "- ' . other shipping centers as a re sult of CIO recognition of the I AFL picket lines and designation i of "hot" cargoes. Despite the 1 fact that the strike has been de clared illegal by Arbiter Wayne L. Morse and, in effect, a strike against the government, the longshoremen are holding fast to their decision to insist upon an agreement in the three ports where they claim Jurisdiction. Back In 1038 W national labor relations board, affrr prolonged hear ing, ruled that CIO should have ex clusive jurisdictional bargaining tight with shippers at all Pacific coast ports, but because AFL long shoremen In the thre Puget Sound ports were at that time working un der an unexpired contract their situ ation was not disturbed. With expira tion of thts contract, Jurisdiction automatically reverted to CIO and shippers, having In mind the possible penalties which might be Imposed for fstlure to observe the labor board ruling, refused to renew tha AFL contract. The question agitating the minds of Pacific coast congressmen la whe ther legislation should be proposed to compel observance of an arbiter's decision when based on rulings by the national labor relations board. This does not mean that arbitration would be compulsory, but that, after it had been accepted, the decision of the arbltrater should be final. Other wise there would seem to be no pur pose or meaning to the ponderous and costly system which has been set up for the adjudication of disputes between employers and employes, ONB of the difficulties . faced by the labor division of the national defense commission la the securing of a sufficient number of skilled work ers to speed up the program. An Instance In point Is the recent experi ence at a government arsenal where 3.000 trained workmen were needed. They were to be selected under civil service rules, but written examina tions were waived and there was to be only an oral investigation of their experience and training. Wide publicity waa given this op portunity to secure steady employ- ! ment and on the appointed day a large number of men appeared. De- spite the relaxation of ordinary re- 1 qulrements and extension of the age limit to 62 years, of all those ex amined only 62 were found to be qualified for the work to be done. ! The next day only 28 of the appli cants could be considered, and each day thereafter the number diminish ed until It reached the vanishing point. Examiners placed the blame for ; this shortage of trained men on arbl- : trary restrictions of the union ap- ; prentlceship system, and It was de cided to open the positions to appli cants from outside the state. How ever, this plan was Immediately nul lified by action of the state labor department which Insisted upon the employment of local workers a de mand Impossible to meet In view of the proved scarcity of men with sufficient training and akUl to do the work required. Union officials claim qualified men did not apply for the positions be cause pay offered by the government was less than the scale imposed upon private industry. Hourly rates, they said, would have to be boosted on government Jobs to at least S1.25 to attract attention. The pay offered by the government is 92 cents as a minimum with some clssses of work paying as high as S1.35. The aroenal situation has been clsrlfled temporarily by a more lib eral attitude on the part of the state labor department which permtta of selection from a list af availables prepared from United States employ ment service registrants, but this la a makeshift arrangement which does not offer permanent solution of the problem. SOMEWHAT similar la the situa tion which baa developed In the Pan ama canal none where workmen em ployed by the government struck for sn increase In wages. The canal cone pay for unskilled labor haa been 18 to 20 cents an hour, and this In lace of the fact that private Industry lu vocations covered by the law is com pelled to pay a minimum of 25 cents an hour with an even shorter work week then has prevailed with the sanal rone workers. riw low pay in the canal tone, of course, is for unskilled labor and. ! r"lly. the workere ere natives ol Pnma whoae daily output below that required ot workmen. But even so. It thing of a contradiction In humani tarian policy tor a department ot g-owrnmcnt to pay lesa tor Identical work ?hn tha same government re quires of private Industry. Pse Mall Tribune want ads. - . In The S- News By Frcnk Jtnkint RITAIN'S king and queen have a narrow escape when Buckingham palace is bombed for the second time in 24 hours. ! The king fays: j Like so many other people we have now had a personal i experience of German barbar- uay ID resolution of all of us to fightJmery- through to final victory." SPOKEN like a king and, what is more, LIKE A MAN. King George and Queen Eliz abeth were away from the pal ace when it was bombed the first time. Instead of deserting and scurrying for a place of safety, they CAME BACK to take whatever might happen like their humbler subjects who CAN'T scurry to a place of saf ety because they lack the money. t GEORGE and Elizabeth are SYMBOLS, having little real authority. A large part ofCOming week. their job is to SET AN EX- . AMPLE. Adolf Hitler's fascist By coming back to their wins Germany elections. home, after it had been bombed and was almost certain to be bombed again, they set an ex- ample that miist be heartening. to their harried and endangered people. If Britain's big people con. tinue to take whatever comes side by side with her little peo ple, dodging none of the com mon danger and refusing to use their money and position to se cure special immunity and safe ty for themselves, taking it un flinchingly along with EVERY BODY, Hitler will find it im possible to break the morale of the British people which is what he is aiming at TEMOCRACY'S worst danger Is the tendency on the part of people who make a lot of money, or inherit a lot of mo ney, to lose sympathetic touch with the problems and the griefs and the everyday troubles of people who haven't done so well. The Road to Laughter and Song! 'wM ,w " Charles Coburn Judi Anthony Quinn Jerry Cetonno pi TODAY for 3 I Plus this added riot of i- -figg ai I fun...down on tht farmll r I I -"ntfl. .t.,w. 1.N.H-. jl .. 4;.a, ( WIERD teles ara coming out of Germany. The British were accused a few days ago of dropping soma sort of inflammable "leaflet" ov er the fields with the idea of burning the crops. A day or so later comes a tale to the effect that they are dropping bags of potato bugs, which ar sup posed to crawl out and Infest the potato fields, thus reducing a major source of food supply. The inflammable leaflet tela SOUNDS absurd, but the potato bug story is absurd on its faca. . i.i. tVtm (potin for . h harm ., crops, ,d next ,ong off If tne ti h WBnted to destroy the Bj mM Jurely ,ind ' The German. mUst be getting Flight 0 Tune Mrdford ana Jackson County lllstor.T (ram tha flits of Ids Mall Tribune 10 and 20 years ajn. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY September IS, 1930 (It was Sunday) Pacific flyer forced to turn i back after 25 hours in air, on I account of bad weather and gai leak. Pear harvest to reach peak party Turkeys of valley to be pooled in co-operative move. More birdi than Ia!t yc Price of gasoline goes up cent on coast. Farm prices now lowest since 1931, with three per cent drop in July. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY September 15, 1920 (It was Wednesday) Registration in M e d f o r d schools heavy, with 315 in high school. War breaks out again In Lith uania. To date 463 cars of pears hava been shipped from this city. Mae Murray and David Powell in "The Right To Love'' at tha Rialto. Fall millinery openings set for next Saturday. a Binc and Boa . . . just a couple af woman biters in a bachelors' paradise beneath those tropic patmi ... until LamoL'R teaches 'em right from sarong. days! vfi i -m rr ' 3
